Eddy Alvarez

Eddy Alvarez is back home from Tokyo after a couple of whirlwind weeks representing Team USA — both as a co-flag bearer in the opening ceremony, alongside basketball star Sue Bird, and as a silver medal-winning baseball player.

Team USA baseball took silver in the Olympic final against Japan on Saturday.

The switch-hitting infielder who won silver at the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics will medal in Tokyo after Team USA advanced to the final

The men’s baseball Team USA is going for gold at the Tokyo Olympics. NBC 6’s Julia Bagg caught up with his family who is cheering him on from Orlando.

Baseball’s return at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics was a triumphant one for the host nation. Japan took home gold with a 2-0 win over Team USA at the Yokohama Stadium on Saturday. The victory capped off an undefeated tournament run and gave the country its first Olympic gold medal in the sport. The U.S., meanwhile, picked up its second...

Tyler Austin got three RBIs and Eddy Alvarez added two doubles and two RBIs.

The Team USA athlete explained what it was like to be an American flag bearer alongside Sue Bird. “It’s a symbol of liberty, a symbol of opportunity—one that my family needed and left their country for,” Alvarez said. “I was very honored to stand with that flag.”

While Miami native Eddy Alvarez was making South Florida proud as one of the two flag bearers for Team USA during Friday’s Opening Ceremony at the Tokyo Olympics, his friends and family were beaming with pride back at home. Alvarez joined USA women’s basketball star Sue Bird, marking the first time in Olympic history that participating countries included both a...

When the Opening Ceremonies of the Tokyo Olympics take place Friday, Miami will be front and center with an athlete who already has achieved success in the Winter Olympics. Miami native Eddy Alvarez, a member of USA Baseball who qualified for the Olympics during competitions last month in West Palm Beach, was one of two athletes selected as the official…

NBC 6’s Laura Rodriguez is in Westchester where Alvarez, also a Winter Olympian, grew up with Cuban immigrant parents.

Flag-bearing honors for the United States will go to Sue Bird and Eddy Alvarez. Bird, a four-time gold medalist with the U.S. women’s basketball team, and Alvarez, an infielder on the U.S. baseball team and silver medal winner in speedskating, will lead the United States during the Parade of Nations at the Opening Ceremony of the Tokyo Olympics on...

USA Women’s Basketball star Sue Bird and USA Baseball infielder Eddy Alvarez have been selected as flag bearers for Team USA at the Opening Ceremony in Tokyo.

Sue Bird and Eddy Alvarez will be the flag bearers for the United States during the Opening Ceremony.

Seven years ago, Eddy Alvarez was part of a four-man short track speedskating relay team that fell 0.271 seconds short of Russia and won a silver medal at the Sochi Olympics.